[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 5/5] rpi-default-providers: Switch providers according to used gfx stack

[Andreas Müller]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback.
>
> On 08/06/2015 09:41 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
>> <javier at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
>>> Yes, I in fact was not sure if it should be a distro or machine feature
>>> and then decided on the former because there is more than the kernel to
>>> make it work like changing mesa configure options. But as mentioned to
>>> Andrea Müller, probably we should ship a mesa .bbappend for this in the
>>> BSP so I agree that a MACHINE_FEATURE will make more sense.
>> Suggestions:
>>
>> * Mesa: A simple append with
>>
>> PACKAGECONFIG_append_rpi += " gallium"
>> GALLIUMDRIVERS_rpi = "vc4"
>>
>> would do. If you check mesa.inc in oe-core others (intel) do similar
>
> That sounds good to me.
>
>> (we might have to wait for a more recent mesa expected in September).
>>
>
> Why do you think we would have to wait for a newer mesa? AFAICT the mesa
> version in Fido (10.4.4) already has vc4 support [0]. Although we have
> been using mesa master so I should test how well 10.4 works. AFAIK Derek
> picked a specific mesa sha1 that Eric's vc4 DRM driver was known to work.
Just started an image based upon oe-core's master sources yet - no
EGL/GLES tests so far. This weekend I will try som EGL/GLES and am
really excited to see how far I get with my first open source graphic
stack (am so tired of this blob crap)...

Andreas